Welcome to NeuroNova Centre for Mindful Solutions
We offer online Mindfulness training for Professionals in collaboration with the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies (UTSCS), and help patients, clients, and corporations find Mindfulness-based courses for managing chronic pain and stress.
Personal Development Courses in MBCPM™
Learn the principles of mindfulness and meditation and how intentionally paying attention to present moment experiences can result in reduced suffering from physical and mental conditions. Mindfulness enhances awareness of mind/body communication and awareness can reduce pain frequency and intensity. Course fee for an 8 week program is $599 +HST including course materials.
Professional Trainings in MBCPM™
Professional trainings in Trauma-Sensitive and Trauma-Informed Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management (MBCPM™) and Stress Management are offered online, leading to a certificate in Applied MBCPM™ Facilitation. In collaboration with the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies (UTSCS).
Professional Training in TS/TI
Professional online training in Trauma-Sensitive and Trauma-Informed (TS/TI) General Mindfulness Facilitation. In collaboration with the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies (UTSCS).
Masterclass from NeuroNova Centre
Each week features themes of different mindfulness practices: Body scans; loving kindness/metta meditations; movement meditations; and others.
Other Online Courses by NNC
Learn about our online Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management Course, Veterans and First Responders Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management Course, and Mindfulness-Based Chronic Stress Management Course for Health Care Workers - and more!
About NeuroNova Centre
NeuroNova Centre for Mindful Solutions Inc. (NNC) was established in 2010 to offer professional trainings in Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management (MBCPM™).
This work evolved from the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course taught by Jon Kabat-Zinn to further customize it for those living with chronic pain, a process that started in 2002 at St Michael’s Hospital’s pain clinic, Toronto, and incorporated Sunnybrook Health Science’s Centre’s pain clinic and telemedicine service from 2003.
The trauma-sensitive, trauma-informed MBCPM™ detailed curriculum is available to professionals who train to facilitate the courses for patients.
NNC collaborates with the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies (UTSCS) to:
- offer the patient/client course to professionals (the MBCPMTM Practical Training); and,
- offer training and mentorship to those who plan to facilitate the course (MBCPMTM Curriculum Training Intensive; and Curriculum Implementation and Development).
Watch this four minute video where MBCPM™ facilitators discuss the fascinating connection between mindfulness, meditation, and chronic pain and mental health management.

Dr. Gardner-Nix talks about Mindfulness resulting in the neuroplasticity that changes how the mind/body experiences pain, reducing suffering and improving quality of life.
Professional Trainings

Practical Training (PT)
MBCPM™ Practical Training (PT)
The MBCPM™ course as taught to patients: Experiencing it first.

Curriculum Training Intensive (CTI)
MBCPM™ Curriculum Training Intensive (CTI)
Work from the MBCPM™ facilitators' manual with an experienced facilitator to explore the elements of skilled facilitation.

Curriculum Implementation and Development (CID)
MBCPM™ Curriculum Implementation and Development (CID)
Develop your meditation guidance and inquiry skills and explore some of the underpinnings of Mindfulness practice which are clinically effective.

Trauma-Sensitive Trauma-Informed General Mindfulness Facilitation (TS/TI)
Trauma-Sensitive Trauma-Informed General Mindfulness Facilitation (TS/TI)
Communicating skillfully and giving choice and agency; enhancing your trauma-informed, trauma-sensitive skills.
Events
NNC Masterclass
For Professional Mindfulness Practitioners - Guiding Mindfulness Practices: Practicing Your Preamble, Guidance, and Inquiry Skills in Meditation Delivery AND Curriculum Implementation
5 April 2022
7 pm ET
Alumni Online Maintenance Classes: “Mindfulness Matters Maintenance”
Maintain your resilience through mindfulness practice. These online and interactive Zoom classes welcome: Alumni of MBCPM™ programmes who attended the course in full; and, Anyone
25 April 2022
7.00 PM ET
MBCPM™ Curriculum Training Intensive (CTI)
MBCPM™ Curriculum Training Intensive (CTI) with Instructors Dr. Allen Steverman and Dr. Jackie Gardner-Nix April 9-10 and April 23-24, 2022
9 April 2022
10:00 am ET
MBCPM™ Curriculum Implementation and Development (CID)
MBCPM™ Curriculum Implementation and Development (CID) Instructors Grace Bezaire, B.A. and Dr. Jackie Gardner-Nix
7 May 2022
10:00 am ET
MBCPM™ Practical Training (PT)
The Essential MBCPM™ Practical Training (PT) on Wednesdays from 6:00 to 8:30 pm, April 27, 2022 - June 15, 2022 With Instructors Angie Kingma RP,
27 April 2022
6:00 pm ET
Pre-Register for Free Mindful Movements on Thursday
Share in our Mindful Movement practice and interact collectively in these challenging times.
7 April 2022
7.00 PM ET
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that Port Hope forms part of the traditional and treaty territory of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinabewaki, Mississauga, and Wendake-Nionwentsïo Nations, and the Williams (1923) treaty territory of the Mississauga/Eastern Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) and Anishinaabe. It is on these ancestral and treaty lands that we mindfully write, meet/gather, teach, learn, and live.